[ python-Bugs-1589480 ] urllib2 does local import of tokenize.py

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Bugs item #1589480, was opened at 2006-11-02 12:10
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Daniel Farina (drfarina)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: urllib2 does local import of tokenize.py

Initial Comment:
urllib2 may do a relative import of tokenize.py, which
can cause it to function abnormally when the user has a
file named "tokenizer.py" in the directory as a script
that utilizes urllib2.

The attached tarball has a shell script called
"showme.sh" that will give standard input to afile.py,
which contains two import statements and nothing else.
Code in the neighboring tokenize.py will be executed,
resulting in printing those lines to standard output.

Expected behavior:
no code in tokenize.py should be executed.

Reproducible on Ubuntu 6.10


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